[Tutor] Re: A couple of queries ...

[Lee Harr]

>Is there a python equiverlant of BASH "sleep xm". Ie halt, go to sleep
>for x mins (Without resorting to a for loop with a v.large count,
>inaccurate + eats CPU cycles!) ?
>

import time
time.sleep(seconds)


>Second query. Is it possible for a python program to start up as a
>background process? The app I am writting needs a demon... (see query
>above :-) ) Rather than writting a seperate BASH script to call the
>python script with "proggy.pg &" in it. This would work but seems a bit
>awkward.

I think I would use twisted.
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/01/15/twisted_intro.html

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